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Project Plex-Box

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fun-hacks dept.

Greasy Spoon writes "Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world. After growing tired with the dull black appearence of this guy's XBox (even with the green lighting skin added) he decided to spruce it up a bit."

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  1. hmm by Dreadlord · · Score: 0, Insightful

    with like 40 pics on a single page, and thousands of /.ers clicking every single link they stumble upon, I can see the 500 error page in my crystal ball...

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    1. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      mods, please, how is this redundant? none of the above posts actually says something like the parent post, unless you read story posts bottom to top or something.

      metamoderation will definitely be unfair.

  2. Pretty boring by TheGrimace · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's an XBox in a plastic case. Somehow that just doesn't excite me much.

    1. Re:Pretty boring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's going on sale soon at eBay. /. has just been used for promotion.

    2. Re:Pretty boring by JudgeFurious · · Score: 4, Insightful

      My thoughts too. "This? This is the ultimate XBox?"

      So basically all I need to do is replace the body on my corvette with a square plex box that a monkey could assemble to have the "ultimate Corvette" right? I'll pass.

      Post the story where some guy takes the existing XBox chasis, makes a mold of it, and casts his own in aluminum or clear plastic with lights inside of it and it might be worth the slashdotting that this guy's going to get.

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  3. Seems to me ... by Niet3sche · · Score: 4, Insightful
    That this is not in the spirit of modding. For instance, when he says, "look for it on ebay soon!", it sucks all the joy out of it for me. I thought that we, as a Geek Collective, made mods to overcome limitations imposed on our tastes. Instead, this seems to just be a mod to sell for profit.

    I'm not sure how this sits with me.

    My $.02

    1. Re:Seems to me ... by adrianbaugh · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I thought this at first, but then realised that he probably only wants to sell it so as to buy something else to mod.. Recognise the signs of addiction, people! :-)

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  4. slashdot at its best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    the above poster was modded down, and a similar post below with similar content (something about the site begin /.ed) got modded up.

  5. mirror by ultrapenguin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    here.

    I don't understand though, most people case mod to make things smaller/nicer.
    He managed to take an already huge XBox and turn it into something even bigger.
    Why not just put a normal PC inside that case then? Heh.

  6. Another lame mod... by Kulic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it just me or are all case mods the same these days? Add plexiglass, lights, leds, maybe vaguely interesting feature (X2 logo).

    Does anyone else remember when case modding used to be cool? Where are the stylish custom stickers? (some nice ones on penny-arcade a while ago) The lego man stuck in cryo in the optical mouse? (too lazy to go find this link too)

    Why isn't anyone pulling apart their CD/DVD tray and making that out of plexiglass?

    In summary, novel and innovative=cool, gratuitous use of plexiglass and lights=lame. (Soz for all the whining).

  7. THIS LOOKS LIKE ASS by thelizman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lissen up folks, just because someone does a really good job cutting plexi and mounting stuff to it doesn't make it a good case mod. It's a box. My dead granny can make something more imaginitve than this.

  8. Yeah great by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Hey guys, I have a swell idea! Let's take an already huge and clumsy game console, and make it even LARGER! In fact, let's make it 3 TIMES LARGER!

    While we are at it, we can increase its already HORRENDOUS power consumption by ADDING MORE LIGHTS!

    This will get us on slashdot for sure!"

    Seriously though, most case mods are cool, but this is retarded. Not only does it look like ass but the form factor is now so huge you could'nt even keep it in your entertainment centre. Plus I bet it is significantly noiser now that it isn't in its native housing.

    The XBox is already a huge ugly console before doing this.

  9. "God"? by t0ny · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If he really were the god of modding, you would think he could make something that didnt look like somebody dumped parts into a fishtank.

    IMO, it looks worse than before he started. BTW, "God" needs to learn to use a spellchecker before he posts a page on the internet.

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